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Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Young Wrass, still being held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp, organizes the children for an assault on Gannajero's warriors. Meanwhile Koracoo and Gonda are coming for the children and they have allies: a battle-weary Mohawk war chief and a Healer from the People of the Dawnland.
Author
Series
The John Hawk Westerns volume Book 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When Jamie Pratt and his young bride disappear deep into Sioux territory, Jamie's brother, Monroe, enlists the legendary scout John Hawk to find them.
63) Forever cousins
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
64) Dead reckoning
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
66) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Collection of new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
Author
Formats
Description
"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"--
"Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this lyrical picture book by Kim Rogers (Wichita), with illustrations by Boston Globe-Horn Book Honoree Julie Flett (Cree-Métis), Becca watches her grandma create, play, and dance-and she knows that she wants to be just like Grandma.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
72) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name... a name that is sure to light up the sky.
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Louise Erdrich is a fearless and inventive storyteller. In her fictional world, the mystical can emerge from the everyday, the comic turn suddenly tragic, and violence and beauty inhabit a single emotional landscape. Each character in these stories is full of surprises, and the twists and leaps of Erdrich's imagination are made all the more meaningful by the deeper human truth that underlies them. In "Saint Marie, " ardent longing propels a fourteen-year-old...
Author
Formats
Description
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
76) My powerful hair
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mom never had long hair—she was told it was too wild. Nokomis couldn’t have long hair—hers was taken from her. But one young girl can’t wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her."
77) American odyssey
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle--the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming's Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief, and father of two. Then, after helping rescue U.S. soldiers trapped...
79) Mascot
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside down with everyone choosing sides and arguments getting...
80) Berry song
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Like their Tlingit ancestors before them, they harvest salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries."
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